An exploration of software faults and failure behaviour in a large population of programs

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 101-111

  Van Der Meulen, M J P ^a   Bishop, P G ^a   Revilla, M ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEBSITES;

C++ - COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; FAILURE BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOFTWARE FAULTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 16244377136     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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